After an embarrassing entry, I keep grinning from ear to ear. Aberdeen nudged me on the shoulder asking with concern, "are you okay?"
I answer with a smile, "of course, why wouldn't I? Look at me I am perfectly fine." I try to clear away the embarrassment.
I take a look again at the pack house, which is a two-story.
"Not all pack members live here." I hear the Beta say probably to Leto and Aberdeen since I haven't talked to him due to my embarrassment.
"My apologies but this is Elle our top warrior," Leto introduces me to the stranger. "And Elle please meet Lucian Kavril. He's the Beta for Daluna" he added.
I turn to face the Beta and see his hand extended out to me. I shake it in return.
He eyes me up and down.
'Something you like beta?' Eliz raises her eyebrow in a flirty way. Seriously this wolf will be the death of me someday.
"I must say the design is extraordinary," I say and turn back to admire their packhouse.
"Yeah, our Alpha designed it himself," Lucian proudly responds as he stands beside me with a big smile.
In hearing his words I genuinely smile without faking it.
"It's beautiful," I whisper.
Aberdeen pinched me on the shoulder but I couldn't bother because this house makes me want to own it someday. I know most people want to live in it but I want to own it and there is a difference between living and owning it.
"The alpha is here" Lucian announced, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I look aside and smile at Aberdeen and Leto while we wait for the Alpha to come out. I hear heavy footsteps coming from inside the house as if someone is running.
Suddenly began to feel anxious. My hands were sweating and I fiddle it. It's something I usually do when I am seriously nervous.
Aberdeen slaps me on the back
"What?" I whisper to her.
"Stop doing that. He is not that bad," she scolded me before adding, "besides he is hot except he's you know-" I look at her in confusion and she cheekily wriggles her eyebrow
"Gay," I blurted.
"No, but you'll see," she says and winks at me making Leto growl. "Oh honey shush you're my number one," she tells him and Leto relaxes a little as he stood beside her. His hand goes around Aberdeen's waist.
The footsteps drew nearer that's when I smell a divine scent. Eliz howled in joy as I stood there in confusion.
The door opens, and he came into view as the scent becomes stronger. One word in my head 'damn' while Eliz screams in excitement 'Mate! Mate!'
Another word popped up in my head
'IMPOSSIBLE'
I stagger back and mumble to myself with my thoughts all over the place now.
'It cannot be,' I deniably mutter to myself. I know for a fact we can never have another mate once your true one is gone.
'Unless,' I shake off my thoughts and look up to see him staring back at me in shock. I abruptly turn my gaze down, head bowing down a little while my eyes go from side to side as my thoughts were everywhere.
Aberdeen shook my shoulder again. "Elle" she whispers to me but I was too lost in my thoughts to notice everyone staring at me.
'This can't be right,' I wanted to scream out loud but then I couldn't.
When my thoughts are calm and I snap back to reality. A feeling of happiness overwhelmed me. I mean he's alive. I turn up again to face him and at that moment I want to run to him and bury my head in his chest while he hugs me.
I started to tear up as I am getting emotional now. Leto's hand rested on my shoulder making me jump a little.
"Hey, are you okay?" he asks in concern and I nodded yes to him before I turn my eyes back to my mate.
Lucian went and stood beside him. "Everyone please meet our Alpha Eric Gibson," Lucian introduce him. Leto moves forward and shakes Eric's hand. Then Leto turned to introduce me and Aberdeen.
I smile at him genuinely thanking the moon goddess for sending him back. She has given me another chance in living this life.
Eric clear his thought and glance at me with coldness evident in his eyes. "Sorry for keeping you all standing here," he says to Leto and ignores me.
'Ouch,' I wince in my head to Eliz.
I try to stay positive and keep on a smiley face for him and everyone else. As he talks to Leto my eyes never left his. I look at him with admiration. Thanking the moon goddess for giving me him.
'My mate'
However, my admiration, gratefulness, and staying positive went out of the window when my eyes settle on his neck.
The smile instantly fell from my face.
"Impossible" I whisper in disbelief at what I'm seeing.
To make everything worse a woman came from inside and stood beside him with her hands going around his waist while smiling at us.
Shutting my eyes, I struggle to hold back my tears. I wanted so bad to lash out at them but I know I cannot create a scene here even though I am entitled to do it.
Once I know I am not losing it I open my eyes and look back at them, linking to Alera, "now I see what went wrong years ago."
Today my so-called pack unintentionally sent me to my grave. I know Josh sent me to a meeting without predicting the consequences but it feels like I am thrown into hell instead of living a dream. This is beyond my nightmare.Coming out of my thoughts I stood there like an idiot, watching mate smile at his chosen mate. He kisses her on the cheek and then moves his down to touch her stomach. Why does it feel too painful to watch their loving moments?Looking up at the sky, I could see darkness with no rays of sunshine and rainbows.'Oh, how wonderful life is!'Eric doesn't know that I was waiting for him and that I long for him to come into my life. I have fallen asleep every night with thoughts of him in my head. How life will turn out if he were there with me.When I felt the pain years ago which almost cost my life I thought he died. I was so hurt and devastated by losing him. However, here he is. Right in front of me with his chosen mate."Hello, I'm Claire Montez-Gibson. Eric's m
Tears flow from my eyes like heavy rain as I settle on a huge rock. I thought back to the years of pain when things went downhill for me.I don't know why I have such a bad fate and I wonder if I ever did something wrong to anger the moon goddess.It is heart-wrenching. My mate had made his decision. Thinking he has a tiny bit of heart for me. How wrong is that? He rejected me without giving me a chance to breathe or even to take my time. Officially, I don't have that someone since he chose for the both of us before I even come into his life.I was crying when I hear something snaps. I look around me and see a big black wolf eyeing me skeptically. His eyes scream danger and I could feel his strong aura. It's like a force ordering me to submit.Anyone should be highly alert right now and start to run away for their life. However, in my situation, I couldn't do anything at all. I could tell that he was an Alpha but that didn't bother me at all as I was too busy crying to even bother.
"Please, Elle get the hell out of the car now!" Leto says with frustrationWe've been doing this for almost an hour and Leto has reached his limit of patience. Yeah, I don't make it easy for anyone especially when I am forced to do something I don't like.When Aberdeen told me that Josh had agreed to leave me for training techniques I didn't take it well. They may not know Eric is my mate but it's still hell no for me. I am not going to stay here with him and his so-called chosen mate Claire."Look I'm sorry if you don't want to but it was Alpha Josh's order, not mine," Leto explains again.Stubbornly I sat in the car with my arms crossing on my chest. Eliz is a heart-warming wolf but not me, the human. Nah ah."Elle we're not leaving you here for good, Josh wants you to learn their technique...simple as that and it's part of the deal," Aberdeen says in a pleading voice as Leto raises his hands in surrender. My best friend and her mate don't deserve my attitude. Gosh! I seriously des
'Grandma,' I muttered as I inspected the dress the two face bitch gave me. I officially despise her. I sigh looking at the dress with no hope.This is the 21st century and yet the witch gave me a dress that someone wore in the 18th century for bedtime reading. I curse that woman. How dare she give me this? Claire knows how to pay back gratitude.I shook my head in disappointment and threw the dress back on the bed. I open the door to my assigned room and peek outside to see if anyone in this pack passes by. Unfortunately, there is no one. I let out another sigh and slam the door. I walk back to the bed and lay down on it, watching the white-grey color ceiling. Someone knocks on my door, ignoring it I turn to the other side of the bed and wish for whoever is outside to get lost. I heard the door creak open and then a footstep. Oh my, can't he/she see that I am not in the mood. "I want scissors" I demanded to whoever is in the room and turn on my back, facing the ceiling again."For?"
"I can't believe you sent a perv to bring me my bags" I complain to Aberdeen on the phone and she laughs at my dismay."No, he's not. Angus is a good kid, and he just had a crush on you," she replied and I could hear her trying to hold in her laughter. Angus was one of the guys in the pack who was already mated but still tries to have his way with me. He told Aber and Josh that it was just a crush but he still try to flirt with me. Therefore, finding him at the pack's door early in the morning, with my luggage, made me want to scream 'bloody murder.' If only Alpha Josh was nearby and we could teleport easily. I would do it and give him a piece of my mind on the douche bag, he sends over with my luggage. Letting out a heavy sigh I check the time and see that it's 7 am. I bid Aber goodbye on the phone. I threw the phone on my bed and went in the shower to get ready. Angus wasn't my only problem this morning. The Alpha was a douche too. He sent one of his warriors earlier to give me a
Three weeks laterThe training was hard and Daluna's techniques are hard to cope with. Trying to master it within a month is not a good thing. It was weeks of struggle and stress.After our last training, Jenna a girl I befriended two weeks ago walks beside me back to the packhouse. The incident on my first dinner here made everyone cast me out and I didn't know they held grudges for so long.However, tonight will be my last dinner in Daluna's Pack and they still didn't forgive me and it doesn't mean I didn't try. Believe it! I did but they wouldn't bother. Claire was being a total bitch to me throughout this one month. Indeed, who cares as if my mate would care. I'm going back today and I would never come back here again since I'm unwanted here."I can tell you can't wait to go home," whisper Jenna and I nod my head. "Yep, I cannot wait to be out of this awful pack," I said in a teasing tone. She pushes me forward playfully and I retaliate by pushing her back."What can't beat me," I
I woke up and found myself still lying in front of the bedroom door. I couldn't believe I cried myself to sleep over nothing. Right! If only it was nothing but no it wasn't, as everything is not okay right now.I get up from the floor and walk towards the window. I open the curtain and look out to see that it is dark outside. Turning around I walk back to find the switch for the lights. When I found it I switch it on, filling the entire room with lights. I pull off my clothes before going to the shower. I spent another hour there. Most of the time I zone out while taking a shower.My thoughts were back to Jenna's words earlier. I can't believe the way fate plays out for me. After my shower, I dry my body with my towel and put on black sweatpants and then a rainbow sweater. I wanted to sleep but my stomach betrays me when it growls with hunger. So, I make my way to the kitchen, hoping everyone is asleep by now. Stumbling my way inside the kitchen I look everywhere for food and only fin
All I could see is darkness. There is no source of light.I cried out for help hours ago but nobody was there to help us or rather for me alone. Claire was nowhere in sight. I don't know where they have taken her. I hear footsteps coming then the door opens widely. Finally, I am now seeing a light. Two hunters came in and dragged me by my hair without saying anything. Their hold on my hair hurts even though I'm a werewolf, it still hurts. I don't even know where they were taking me again. They drag me out of the house then into an SUV van, then blindfold me.The car stopped and I felt hands on my arms. When they took off the blindfold I look around and saw that we were now in a clearing. We were in the woods in the middle of nowhere and I am not familiar with the surroundings.Then all of a sudden figures came out of the trees. I first saw Eric coming out from behind a tree, then following Lucian.My wolf Eliz howls with excitement that our mate is here. Then we saw the alpha of the M